Politics

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 09:23 UTC

  UK universities representative visits Chile to foster closer relations

  

  University of Kent Vice-Chancellor Professor Dame Julia Goodfellow visited Chile from 1 to 3 February 2015. Dame Julia, who is also the incoming President of Universities UK, the body representing all UK Universities, had discussions with senior Chilean officials, including the Deputy Minister of Education, Valentina Quiroga.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 09:09 UTC

  Petrobras shares soar 15% ahead of CEO's and senior managers removal

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will replace the chief executive and other senior managers at state-run oil company Petrobras later this month in an effort to turn the page on the widening corruption scandal. Petrobras shares jumped more than 15%, their biggest one-day gain in 16 years, after Folha do Sao Paulo first reported that Rousseff intended to replace CEO Maria das Graças Foster.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 09:00 UTC

  Uruguay with one foot in the Security Council in 2016; has full support from the region

  

  Uruguay is the 'only' candidate from Latin America and the Caribbean and has the necessary votes to be elected next October non permanent member of the United Nations Security Council beginning 2016, announced foreign minister Luis Almagro. This will be the second time a Uruguay seat at the Security Council, the first was in 1965/66.

• Wednesday, February 4th 2015 - 08:28 UTC

  Falkland Islands picture from 400 kilometers above the Earth

  

  Russian cosmonaut Oleg Guermanovich Artemiev, member of the International Space Station Expedition 40 posted this week a high definition picture of the Falkland Islands taken while orbiting from 400 kilometers above the Earth.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 06:35 UTC

  Brazil's Lower House elects as speaker a critic of President Rousseff's policies

  

  Brazil's Congress elected a conservative as speaker of the Chamber of Deputies on Sunday in a setback for the ruling Workers' Party that split President Dilma Rousseff's coalition and will complicate her legislative agenda.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 06:22 UTC

  Judges decline to handle Nisman's allegations against Cristina Fernandez

  

  Two judges on Monday declined to handle the allegations brought by late prosecutor Alberto Nisman against Argentina's president, charging her with seeking to derail his investigation of the deadly 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 06:14 UTC

  Obama's 4 trillion budget gives priority to the middle class and infrastructure

  

  President Barack Obama's 2016 budget unveiled Monday sets priorities for the middle class and proposes major infrastructure improvements, to be paid for largely through increased contributions by the wealthy and corporate America.

• Tuesday, February 3rd 2015 - 00:10 UTC

  Falklands' oil drilling program confirmed; rig from Western Africa on its way

  

  Falkland Oil and Gas Ltd has confirmed that the Eirik Raude rig has commenced mobilization from West Africa to the Falkland Islands for the 2015 drilling program, which will be operated by Premier Oil and Noble Energy.

• Monday, February 2nd 2015 - 03:49 UTC

  Uruguay's new administration after more open and frank relations with Mercosur

  

  Career diplomats at key embassies, a more frank approach in talks with Mercosur, closer links with Israel and any free trade option with the United States remains frozen, anticipated Rodolfo Nin Novoa, Uruguay's next foreign minister as of next March first when the new administration takes office.

• Sunday, February 1st 2015 - 23:51 UTC

  Falklands' community enjoys 250th anniversary celebrations

  

  Saturday 31st January saw the culmination of a week of celebrations in the Falkland Islands commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Union Flag being raised on Saunders Island. Commodore John Byron placed the flag in 1765 signifying the start of British rule in the Falkland Islands.